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Word: dangerously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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...launched or were building at the navy yards. Since sea fighting was carried on under such close range in the Civil War, the superiority of the men was a most important factor. Men of all sizes and ages are eligible for the navy. The service is more free from danger of infections and contagious diseases than the army, and has other advantages peculiar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOLDIER'S AND SAILOR'S LIFE. | 5/18/1898 | See Source »

...move was felt to be advisable for several reasons. First, because of the dangers due to unavoidable overcrowding in the old location which led to the reducing of the number of seats last year and which have made a move inevitable in the eyes of the Corporation. Second, because while in the eyes of the Corporation there are no objections to the new site on the ground of danger, 1500 more people can be seated and much more space be left available for the classes and graduates. Thirdly, the vote to move was carried because the majority felt that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TREE EXERCISES TO BE MOVED. | 4/13/1898 | See Source »

...fete. We have had the Tree for a long time and have never had a fire, but every year there are a number of drunks there who insist on smoking and who might easily leave a lighted match where it could set a muslin skirt afire. That this danger is considerable, perhaps more considerable than we realize, seems possible from the fact that I have heard from several different sources of graduates, who had got very nervous on this account...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication. | 4/6/1898 | See Source »

...place for holding the afternoon exercises, it is approved by the President and the Corporation; second, it affords a seating capacity of one thousand seats more than the space about the Tree; third, the arrangement of the seats admits of larger entrances and exits, and thereby reduces the danger in case of a panic; fourth, more room within the enolosure made by the seats is secured to the graduates and undergraduates than is possible about the Tree; fifth, the John Harvard statue forms an appropriate centre about which the Seniors may assemble. Seats would be erected on three sides only...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letter from Class Day Committee. | 4/5/1898 | See Source »

There is one danger connected with the whole affair, however. While the new system may help to raise the strength average by arousing more general interest in the test, it may lead to exaggeration of individual work at the expense of the athletic teams. Beneficial as gymnasium work is and to be encouraged among a certain class of men, if it puts a premium on indoor in opposition to outdoor exercise, and encourages individual at the expense of team work, it is in measure disadvantageous. This fact has already been recognized by a number of men with the result that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/7/1898 | See Source »

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